Ten Months After Construction Started
About ten months after the construction on the Grayback started, the vessel was launched on January 31st, 1941. This was done by the wife of Rear Admiral Wilson Brown. It became a part of the U.S. Navy on June 30th, about five months before the country entered the Second World War. All was well at first. After it was commissioned, the vessel went on a shakedown cruise on Long Island Sound at the helm of Lieutenant Willard A. Saunders. It was a chance to try out its systems and make the crew get used to the vessel. The sub was clearly up to standard and finally did a patrol of the Caribbean and the Chesapeake Bay in September 1941. All of a sudden, Pearl Harbor shocked the entire nation.
Ten Months After Construction Started
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